Crain's Chicago Business (Feb. 19) -- Larry Smarr, a physicist who started out studying black holes at University of Illinois and ended up helping create the web browser and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, was named a recipient of a Golden Goose award over the weekend. Smarr, now a professor at University of California-San Diego, wrote the grant proposal that brought the NCSA to Urbana in 1986.